But Google wants such capabilities to become more broadly available through its Cloud Vision API, technology it previewed in limited fashion last December and that it moved into open beta this week.

This API is part of the underlying software which is able to capture and identify a user, a dog, or otherwise and can translate that information into something more meaningful, like recognition ...

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of the Cloud Vision application programming interface (API). As a tool for developers, the API can be used to add machine learning and image recognition to ...

Google is exposing some of its internal projects to developers as cloud APIs. After giving away TensorFlow, a machine learning service, Google is now opening up access to the image recognition ...

The image recognition API space is incredibly competitive, with major cloud providers like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services offering their own competing services.

Image recognition was already good—but it’s getting way, way better. A research collaboration between Google and Stanford University is producing software that increasingly describes the ...